Jailbreaking iPhone now legal

Plenty of news organizations are reporting that the U.S. Copyright Office says it’s legal to “jailbreak” your iPhone, but the “Wired” story showed up first in my Twitter feed, so that’s whose I’m linking to.

Jailbreaking allows you to hack the Apple operating system and circumvent the strict controls the company places on the software it runs. Needless to say, Apple isn’t crazy about having its products hacked.

The “Wired” story includes links to a video explanation of the legality of jailbreaking and a tutorial on how to jailbreak a phone.

The potential downside of doing so is that it could turn your phone into a very expensive and slick looking projectile.